Friday, 28 November 2014

A Repeat Lesson

I think it’s that time of year again, where we have a
conversation we’ve had many times before. Yet it seems to repeatedly fall on
deaf ears or blind eyes as the case may be.

The message is a simple one; just because something is
written, it does not mean the author still feels the same way.

Emotions are an amazing thing, an ever changing thing and
when you write the way I and many other bloggers write, you’re capturing a
moment when those emotions existed. The problem being the length of time those
moments existed varies wildly.

There have been times I’ve written a blog and by the time
I’ve proofread it, I no longer feel the same way. But I still post those
blogs. I need to in order for the larger story to make sense in the long run.
If you start omitting pieces of the story, it has a way of becoming
disingenuous and that’s the last thing I want.

However, because I’m posted things I may have felt only
briefly, I get incredibly irritated when people I know start questioning me
about things that happened weeks, if not months ago. It’s the reason I don’t
give out my URL (yet somehow people still manage to find it). I write what I
feel at the time, you can hear it in some of my blog that as I’m writing, I’m
working through it so there is no point in questioning me about the top of the
blog if by the bottom I’m a sane person again.

People always claim they understand this, but when it comes
down it they don’t. I understand it’s just human nature, but just let things
play out rather than tamper with it after the fact.

Anyways, my dears, that is my, what feels like, yearly rant
on the matter. Let me know in the comment box below if you have the same
problem. And as always stay and play safe.